This article is from PLoS ONE , volume 9 . Abstract Background: Insects evolved ingenious adaptations to use extraordinary food sources. Particularly, the diet of herbivores enriched with noxious plant secondary metabolites requires detoxification mechanisms. Sequestration, which involves the uptake, transfer, and concentration of occasionally modified phytochemicals into specialized tissues or hemolymph, is one of the most successful detoxification strategies found in most insect orders. Due...
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4041752